Nuclear fuel company Clean Core Thorium Energy announced its patented ANEEL fuel has successfully reached more than 60 GWd/MTU of burnup in the Advanced Test Reactor at Idaho National Laboratory.
 

Solstice Advanced Materials, which was spun off from Honeywell last year, has seen its nuclear revenues increase 27% in the first quarter of 2026. Meanwhile, ConverDyn, the marketing agent for Solstice's uranium hexafluoride production, has agreed to supply uranium conversion services to micromodular reactor company Hadron Energy Inc.
 

Urenco has completed its first trial production run for LEU+ fuel at its Capenhurst facility in the UK, with plans to make it commercially available "in the near future".
 

The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board has issued an operating licence for the NFC-Kota fuel plant at Rawatbhata in Rajasthan.
 

Three trial uranium-plutonium MOX fuel assemblies containing americium-241 and neptunium-237 were loaded into the Beloyarsk BN-800 fast neutron reactor core in the summer of 2024. After completing three fuel campaigns they will now cool in a used fuel pool before undergoing post-irradiation studies.
 

A ceremony has been held in Bangladesh to mark the start of the loading of 163 nuclear fuel assemblies into Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant’s first unit.
 

ConverDyn has said it is looking into building a sister plant to its Metropolis conversion facility, in addition to recently announced plans to expand the existing plant.

Nuclear fuel company Clean Core Thorium Energy has signed an agreement with Canadian Nuclear Laboratories for the manufacture of demonstration irradiation bundles of its patented ANEEL thorium and high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel.
 

This is a significant time of change for the nuclear energy sector - and existing nuclear capacity is the bedrock for nuclear growth that could be unprecedented, according to nuclear industry leaders at the World Nuclear Fuel Cycle 2026 conference in Monaco.